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Skype-Wrapper breaky 12.04 upgrade #43
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@MrsSheep, interesting, the upgrade tool should have auto-disabled all PPAs and I believe it's the default behaviour. Every computer I did a Do you have a lot of |
Yes, According to Problem is, I can't use ANY apt-get or dpkg due to the broken |
TATAM - I solved it. The description in the status file was corrupt, VERY evil error. http://thepcspy.com/read/fixing-dpkg-status-corruption/ I dunno if this could affect other people but you should double-check that there is a Thanks for your advice anyway - and of course for skype-wrapper, which normally was a pleasure to use. |
This probably means the I am not sure what to advise, other than making a back-up of
I am not an expert, but it seems to me like you are already in a broken state so no much worse you can do if you keep proper back ups. |
There is an empty line before Anyway, everything works again. (Or at least now it's not due to skype-wrapper) |
thanks for sorting this out .. will push an update asap |
I just did the 12.04 upgrad and (forgot) to remove the PPA. Result was tons of broken dependencies, tried apt-get -f install but constantly get
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 162445 package 'skype-wrapper':
blank line in value of field 'Description'
tried manual uninstall and everything that came into my mind - but system stays broken; just CLI
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